- How does this compare with her attitude in Part I, when she marches to her doom?
8. Guerin observes (see p. 155) that the myth critic sees literature “holistically, as the manifestation of vitalizing, integrative forces arising from the depths of humankind’s collective psyche.” [my italics–clues! clues!!] In what senses are the tasks Psyche performs “integrative”? (Read over–with a critical detachment!–Erich Neumann’s analysis of Psyche’s tasks.)
9. How does Psyche’s journey to the Underworld compare with the journeys of her mythical antecedents? (see Myth of Inanna, and The Descent of Ishtar, for example.)